Audio Books

Cheers for Joseph Wambaugh for continuing the series that features the men and women of the Hollywood division of the Los Angeles Police Department. This story about a husband and wife team who excel in identity theft is by far the best of the series. Through an elaborate system of cons, deceptions, and manipulation of documents they are able to steal from innocent victims.
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk is definitely not for children, but it is for the child in all adults. Who among us has not wondered what the family dog, the baboon in the zoo or the pigeon in the park is thinking as he observes the world around him and follows his life's pursuits? Thanks to David Sedaris' humorous collection of modern fables, we can think that we have that insight. This delightfully quirky audio book contains seventeen animal tales read by the author and 3 other talented readers.
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Michael Sutton's memories of the kidnapping of a four year old girl have been repressed for 20 years, but recent news accounts have triggered forgotten images, and he needs Kinsey Milhone's help to sort them out. He thinks he remembers witnessing the girl's murder when he was a child, and he wants to hire Kinsey to help him find the burial site. It is now 1988, and the fact that crime took place in the 60's does not make Kinsey's job easy, but there's something about the young man that convinces Kinsey
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For Detective Alex Cross, any murder he's asked to investigate becomes personal as he tracks down the killer, but it's especially gut-wrenching when the victim turns out to be a relative. Alex's birthday party is interrupted by a call to investigate the death of his niece, Carolyn, and when he gets to the scene, he learns that her body has been fed into a wood chipper.
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Life in Boston is predictable and dull for 14 year old Max Murphy-go to school, play video games, complain about his inaccessible archeologist parents, complain about the strange food his 'nanny', Zia, cooks for him. When his parents suddenly cancel his much-anticipated summer vacation trip to Italy because of their need to visit an important dig in Central America, he feels furious and abandoned.
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Charles Darwin's name is synonymous with evolution and all the controversy and discussion it has aroused. In this informative and entertaining book, Deborah Heiligman presents the chronology of the events in Darwin's life and explores how the people he knew and the things he experienced help to shape the ideas he developed and which came to form the basis of his The Origin of the Species.
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Nine Dragons is another electrifying story featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Harry Bosch. Now divorced, Harry's wife is living with their daughter in Hong Kong. Harry keeps in touch with his daughter via trips to Hong Kong and by phone and video. Harry is investigating the robbery and murder of a Chinese
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